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Believing that there are fundamental, emotional and intellectual
differences between children and adults, Advocates for Abandoned
Adolescents' mission is to end the practice of trying, sentencing and
incarcerating youth under 18 in the adult criminal justice system.Our
mission is to place a national spotlight upon the nations approach to
juvenile justice, and to place faces and stories to the children that
were waived, and thereby, held to an adult standard in the courtroom and
then sent to adult prisons. Our mission is to end the practice of
sentencing children to life without the possibility of parole, and to
reduce the harm caused to children in adult prisons by supporting
legislation that will make those who were sentenced as children eligible
to have their sentences reviewed at some point during their
incarceration.